{"id":9094,"date":"2014-06-10T15:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:37:46","slug":"timber-timbre-hot-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/06\/10\/timber-timbre-hot-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber Timbre &#8211; Hot Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/06\/10\/timber-timbre-hot-dreams\/tim21\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim21-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"tim21\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><i>Hot Dreams<\/i>, the sixth album in nine years from Toronto\u2019s Timber Timbre, features ten tunes bound together by countless moments of dark and shadowy beauty.<!--more--> The album displays incredible musicianship, production, and overall vision and coherency which is laid out nicely on the title track, \u201cI wanna still my mind&#8230;I want another chance to distill the time, I wanna rise up beside you, I want to be a champion in your eyes.\u201d Frontman Taylor Kirk has a powerful voice that tends to sounds like Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, especially when he sings the word \u201cavalanche.&#8221; The sound is nostalgic and constantly demonstrates Kirk\u2019s clear talent for great song writing. The tracks on\u00a0<i>Hot Dreams<\/i>\u00a0are catchy and spooky strange. Many songs move forward with bright organ and an out of phase electric guitar, leaving off from the band\u2019s last fantastic album \u201cCreep on Creepin\u2019 on.\u201d\u00a0<i>Hot Dreams<\/i>\u00a0builds from song to song, beginning with Kirk imagining and pleading for the way love once was. By track seven the love is broken and begins to fall &#8211; \u201cwhat does it mean to be unhealthy badly, my love?&#8230;you turned me on, then you turned on me. This low commotion is going down.\u201d When the album reaches stand out track \u201cRun From Me,\u201d Kirk is begging for his love to save herself the trouble of being with him. \u201cRun from me darling, run my good wife, run from me darling, you better run for your life.\u201d The album closes with the instrumental, \u201cThe Three Sisters,\u201d highlighting feelings of uncertainty and longing brought about by dramatic and swelling horns, reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel\u2019s \u201cThe Fool.\u201d The Three Sisters seem to be inviting Kirk back down to earth after his emotional ride with a love that is now gone, but the album ends before he can make his return. (Arts &amp; Crafts,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/timbertimbre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">timbertimbre.com<\/a>)\u00a0<b>Gil Carroll<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Dreams, the sixth album in nine years from Toronto\u2019s Timber Timbre, features ten tunes bound together by countless moments of dark and shadowy beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[472,1014],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-jazz-fest","tag-timber-timbre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}